From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:00:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1157115624.5057.89.camel@jzny2> References: <20060831212129.GF3470@postel.suug.ch> <1157060812.5297.51.camel@jzny2> <1157093281.2878.19.camel@ux156> <1157113331.5057.67.camel@jzny2> <1157113517.2878.55.camel@ux156> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Graf , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx03.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.106]:25479 "EHLO mx03.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbWIANAc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:00:32 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx03.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GJ8dO-0001XV-5S for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:00:34 -0400 To: Johannes Berg In-Reply-To: <1157113517.2878.55.camel@ux156> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 14:25 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:22 -0400, jamal wrote: > > > Sorry, I havent had time to look at that code (is it in Daves tree?); > > No, it's not in any tree yet. > Could you point me to it? I can look at it over the weekend. > > if > > i understand you correctly - you have a superset of commands, and some > > users of those commands can only implement a subset? > > precisely. It may be we need to add another feature to genl to accomodate this. Example by setting a flag to indicate supportability. However, it does sound like this is something your code needs to own in a capability set structure somewhere. I cant tell without looking at the code. cheers, jamal